- Xymon - Xymon mailman web

No more cpu utilisation graph
by rcohen55＠gmail.com 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Hi Got a group of 16 VMs - running OLE 6.8, and xymon 4.3.28 - which are an exact replica. About a month ago, one of those stopped to produce the rrd graph for CPU utilisation. a dump of the rrd file showed null values since certain stage. I deleted the vmstat rrd file and killed the rrd processes - still no graph. checked the client log to verify that the vmstat is coming in - they do. any idea how to solve it? cheers Ron

2 1

Mail queue has elements less than 5 minutes; Mail queue is empty.
by Gerald.E.Dunnell＠centurylink.com 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

All, I am getting this message in purple, but I don't know what it means. The mail queue is in fact empty so why is xymon giving me an error? Is there a way to suppress this test on the client? Any help would be appreciated. Jerry Dunnell NSM Configuration Management 500 North New York Av., Winter Park, FL. 32789 Mailstop: FL01420102-1016 Voice: 407-621-3518 | Wireless: 407-310-3084 Email: Gerald.E.Dunnell at CenturyLink.com<mailto:yoram.x.dvoretz at CenturyLink.com> [cid:image001.jpg at 01D3B7C2.F7887510] This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

2 1

WinPSClient - Client can't get local server name
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Hi everyone, I have one Win2008 32 bit server that I'm trying to install the WinPSClient on. When I try to install it I get this: C:\Program Files\xymon>powershell.exe ./xymonclient.ps1 install You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression. At C:\Program Files\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:934 char:81 + if ($script:XymonSettings.clientlower -eq 1) { $clname = $clname.ToLower <<<< () } + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (ToLower:String) [], RuntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull Service "XymonPSClient" installed successfully! So I set clientfqdn and clientlower to 0 which eliminated the errors but the Xymon server never shows any information or ghost clients with the server name. To start troubleshooting I looked at the data file produced by the client and found the server name is missing from the first line produced by the client: client .powershell powershell XymonPS It looks like I could define it in the script, but every time the client is updated by the Xymon server it will get overwritten as it doesn't look like there's a way to define it in the config file. Any help would be appreciated. I'm not a Windows scripter. Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | * 734-384-6403 | | * 7349151444 | * Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:%7BE-mail%7D> www<http://www.la-z-boy.com/>.la-z-boy.com<http://www.la-z-boy.com/> | facebook.<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>com<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>/<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>lazboy<http://facebook.com/lazboy> | twitter.com/lazboy<https://twitter.com/lazboy> | youtube.com/<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy>lazboy<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy> [cid:lzbVertical_hres.jpg] This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you.

3 4

graph themes
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Can anyone advise on how to theme the graphs a bit? After 20 years of the light gray rectangles I'd like them to look a little more modern. -- Kris Springer

4 14

Xymon network tests alerts
by chrisp＠lightstoneauto.co.za 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Good day. I built a new xymon monitor on centos7, using the Terabithia repo. All is working great except for some network tests. I receive a couple alerts during the evening mostly for server conn test and http tests failing. When looking at the history the failed test were red for 10 to maybe 30 seconds, the http tests up to 2 minutes. I have been running continues pings from the xymon server in screen sessions and so far did not drop a packet. What other tests can I do to verify the xymon tests, or is there a known solution for this problem. Kind regards [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/AUTOlogoW.png] Chris Pretorius [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/phone.png] 0872367740 [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/email.png] chrisp at lightstone.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstone.co.za> [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/web.png] www.signio.co.za<http://www.signio.co.za> [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/address.png] Centurion Square, 3rd Floor, cnr Heuwel and Gordon Hood rd, Centurion This communication is subject to Lightstone's email disclaimer<http://www.lightstone.co.za/portal/content/email-disclaimer.aspx>

1 0

Can the ps client notify when windows updates are available.
by me＠tdiehl.org 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hi, I am wondering if anyone has a way to monitor a windows server using the powershell client so that it will notify xymon when a machine needs to have windows updates installed and or rebooted? I currently have xymon triggering a yellow uptime dot if the machine(s) are up more than 30 days but I am looking for something more accurate. Is there some kind of external script available? If this does not exist, does anyone know how to detect that updates are needed or the machine needs a reboot. My Google foo seems to lacking in this area. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org

2 1

Xymon Complete Features List
by William.Gregoire＠ca.ebarrette.com 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hello, I have made some research on the internet to understand everything that xymon can monitor. I have come up with this list: 1- Hosts Activities. 2- Network Services. 3- http, FTP, Smtp, pop3, imap, webmail, request monitor. 4- Local Disk Utilisation. 5- Logfiles. 6- Processes . 7- Memory. 8- Domain name expiration date & websites url & SSL certificate status. 9- Testing a specific URL of a webpage. Is this list complete ? or there are other things that Xymon can monitor ? Thanks in advance.

2 1

Get username on disabled alerts
by yyyadvendra＠gmail.com 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hi Guys New to xymon I am looking around to capture the username somewhere in a webpage if a test was disabled, Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Yadvendra

4 5

Alerts not recognizing DURATION flag
by danyiem＠vcu.edu 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Hi all, We had an incident this morning where a server's http check went red for 2m 35s starting at 04:15, recovering at 04:17 and sent out an alert at 04:21 with a subject 'servername:keepalive CRITICAL (RED)' and the body of the message 'green Wed Nov 21 04:18:46 2018: Content OK'. The strange thing is that in alerts.cfg the MAIL is set up with 'DURATION >5m' and should not be sending out alerts at all if the problem does not persist for more than 5 minutes. In the info tab for this server it does show '1st Delay' as '5m 1s', so it appears to be seeing the setting, just not respecting it. We are using Xymon 4.3.28-1.el7.terabithia running on CentOS 7.5. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks, *Eliza Danyi* Operating Systems Analyst VCU Computer Center E-mail: danyiem at vcu.edu *Don't be a phishing victim -- VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details, visit **https://ts.vcu.edu/about-us/information-security/common-questions/what-is-phishing/ <https://ts.vcu.edu/about-us/information-security/common-questions/what-is-p…> *

1 0

Increase size of BBALPHAMSG size
by dl1025＠att.com 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

My email alerts are getting large. I need to be able to increase the BBALPHAMSG size to larger to 4096. Is there an environmental variable I can use? I am running xymon 4.3.28 on Red Hat Linux. Thanks

1 1